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ST PETER AND ST PAULS CHURCH

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Church of Saxon origin, but mostly early C15. This, the parish church, stood to the North of, and very close to, the Abbey church, there being very little space between the abbey church's North transept and the parish church's South chapel. Six-unit plan of 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave, north and south aisles with single bay chapels at the east end of each, north porch, south vestry and west tower.
There was a minster at Muchelney before the Abbey became a Benedictine monastery circa 937. The Abbey gained possession of the parish church in 1228 at the same time as it gained the rights of the minster, (see ST42SW27).

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[ST 4290 2491] St. Peter & St. Paul's Church [TU] (1)

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Muchelney. Mainly 15th c. with
fine tower, and nave with panelled wagon roof with 17th c. paintings.
Grade A. (2)

In normal use. (3)

Church of SS Peter and Paul. Saxon origin, but mostly earlier C 15. Six-unit plan of 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave, north and south aisles with single bay chapels at the east end of each, north porch, south vestry and west tower. Grade I. (4,5)

Until c 1400, Muchelney was the mother church of Drayton (ST 42 SW 9) which suggests an early, possibly pre-Conquest, foundation. It was appropriated by Muchelney Abbey (ST 42 SW 7) in 1228. It was dedicated to St Peter only until 1543, then taking the dual dedication from the dissolved Abbey church. (6)

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(1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1962

(2) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

MHLG Prov List 2184/11/A Oct 1952 (32)

(3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 GHP 30-NOV-66

(4) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DoE (HHR) South Somerset Feb 1986 (109)

(5) The Buildings of England

South and West Somerset 1958 250-251 (N Pevsner)

(6) edited by R.W. Dunning 1974 A history of the County of Somerset: volume III

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)47-9

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